11:08 AM,
Jan. 20, 2014

Carol Sparks Drake told Boone County Area Plan Commission in 2004 of her opposition to the Duke Realty project. 'We'll look out at loading docks and trucks,' she said. 'We'll have to look at this for the rest of our lives.'

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Carol Sparks Drake and her husband carved out a comfortable country life over two decades on their 45-acre farm between Zionsville and Lebanon.

The location offered the best of both worlds. Their home was surrounded by cornfields, pastures and woods, but was close enough to I-65 to make for an easy drive to Lebanon, where Drake worked, or into Indianapolis.

The Drakes weren't the only ones to recognize the appealing qualities of interstate access and huge expanses of open farmland. ...